29/12/2012

This execution notice begins: ‘THE / Last SPEECH and CONFESSION / AND / DYING WORDS / OF HELLEN MARISHAL / Who was executed at the Grass-Market of Edinburgh, upon the Thirty Day of March, One thousand Seven hundred and twenty, for the Crime of Murdering her own Child.’ This sheet was printed in Edinburgh, at the bottom of Horse Wynd, in 1720. for more click here